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So I bought VALIS about 2 years after reading this thread and just got around to reading it. Wow, not finished yet but very very good indeed. I'll be finding more Philip K Dick books for sure now. The ideas in here are amazing, the repetition of time changing to space, references to Wagner and "Pars...

Truth is that it is totally controlled. Look at the TV/film references to "the cloud"... people don't even understand what that is, let alone realize that "the cloud" is run by intelligence agencies for data collection and profiling Just recently watch a movie called "The Circle" where a Google typ...

thanks for the link to your pics, they are great, looks like you got a really nice day too. shame no photos allowed inside though :( cheers for the tip, i'll be sure to cue up my phone before we go in. I was looking for reading material before I (hopefully) go so the website looks good, may pick up ...

Haha I did wonder if you would remember and comment on this, turns out I was right! Hehe :lol: I have been thinking of northern things recently actually and your comments about the Beaumont book describing the holy lands being in Scotland is still quite fresh in my mind. I also heard about an 'illu...

I just had to pipe up about the Why Don't You TV show. I remember it fondly although I really didn't realise the full title was 'Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go Out and Do Something Less Boring Instead?', I thought it was just Why Don't You. Ahh yes it sure does take me back!

The sun didn't appear merely to be blocked; it was inked out as it were, just a blacker than black nothingness without any earthshine effect. there are videos on youtube where the images of the eclipse have been 'tonemapped' and there is no object visible covering the sun, maybe something behind th...

I've encountered these before but under the name 'hang drum'. I'd never heard of this instrument before but spent quite a while this morning thanks to these posts meandering around youtube discovering just how good they sound. Then I stumbled on this piece of music called the 'Song of The Butterfly...

A devolution of humanity back to automaton status would be possible by the press of a button. The perfect slave race. Or perfect army.........just reading this the day after watching the last episode of dollhouse season 1 where the brain implant technology used on the 'dolls' is leaked into the pop...